I remember vividly the impact MON had on Villa when he first joined our club. Hundreds of fans queuing outside villa park trying to get a glimpse of him, he was hailed the messiah before he began working!
The first game against Arsenal, we looked so good, we saw the effect he had on us so shortly and he set us up accordingly with our counter attacking football. The following window he brought Ashley Young, one of the finest players to ever don the claret and blue shirt of this generation.
Those memories give me hope that there is a manager out there can have this sort of impact at this club for the short and long term. The key is finding someone to fill that void.
MON came from Celtic to Villa, one big club to another. Just like Newcastle, Just like Liverpool, You have to be cut from a certain cloth to be able to manage Aston Villa and the expectation.
Not any manager can walk into this club without already managing a big club.